Exponential Transformation: Evolve Your Organization (and Change the World) With a 10-Week ExO Sprint
About this ebook
Today’s top business challenge is adapting to accelerating technological and global change. In his bestselling book Exponential Organizations, author Salim Ismail described a new type of organization that thrives amidst industry disruption. Since then, he has helped organizations disrupt their own industries—by applying Exponential Organization (ExO) principles. From this work emerged the 10-week transformation process explained in this book, called the ExO Sprint.
Exponential Transformation is the detailed implementation handbook for becoming an Exponential Organization. The book enables organizations to speed up their transformation and overcome the obstacles to success.
- Lead a 10-week ExO Sprint
- Evolve in order to navigate industry disruption
- Become an Exponential Organization
- Block the immune-system response of organizations during transformation
Companies such as Visa, Procter & Gamble, HP, and Black & Decker have already benefited from ExO process. Exponential Transformation is a must-have resource for participants of any ExO Sprint, as well as those seeking to apply Exponential principles in their organizations.
About the author
Salim Ismail spent the last seven years building Singularity University as its founding executive director and current global ambassador. He is the best-selling author of Exponential Organizations and travels extensively lecturing on how organizations can leverage ongoing technology disruptions to grow 10x faster than their peers. Singularity University has empowered people from more than 85 countries to apply disruptive technologies - biotechnology, artificial intelligence, and neuroscience - to more than 100 startups and countless patents and ideas. Prior to Singularity, Salim was a vice president at Yahoo, where he built and ran Brickhouse, the company's internal incubator. His last company, Ångströ, a news aggregation startup, was sold to Google in 2010. He has founded or operated seven early-stage companies.
Francisco Palao is an award-winning entrepreneur and innovator with deep experience helping corporations transform. After receiving his PhD in Artificial Intelligence, Francisco launched several disruptive startups the led him to understand the importance of applying the right innovation methodologies together with cutting-edge technologies. He designed the ExO Sprint methodology and has been dedicated to its continual improvement and accessibility.
Michelle Lapierre has made a career of supporting business leadership and senior management in responding to change. As a consultant and business advisor, she has facilitated full-scale transformation in the public and private sectors through leadership, coaching, and implementation support. Her work today empowers organizations to decode industry disruption using the ExO Sprint model.
